NEWS:  We have launched a campaign to acquire Johann Heinrich Müntz’s South East View of Strawberry Hill House, a rare contemporary painting of Horace Walpole’s Gothic villa. Painted between 1755 and 1758 while Müntz was working at Strawberry Hill as Walpole’s artist in residence, the work captures the house before its dramatic transformation of 1759, when the Gallery and Round Tower were added. Now on short-term loan to the house, the painting offers a unique opportunity to return this remarkable record of Strawberry Hill’s early Gothic design to the place it was created to depict.

NEWS:  Strawberry Hill House have launched an appeal to recreate the Shell Seat, one of the most iconic and imaginative features of Horace Walpole’s eighteenth-century garden. Designed by Richard Bentley around 1754 and positioned to frame views of the Thames, the monumental clam-shell bench formed part of Walpole’s celebrated “land of beauties”. Working with Factum Arte, we will use advanced 3D digital mapping to produce a faithful, weather-resistant replica.

NEWS:  The Strawberry Hill Trust has launched its Strategic Plan (2026–28), setting out a renewed Vision and Mission for the next chapter of the house and garden. Framing Strawberry Hill as the global home of the Gothic, the plan focuses on four core priorities: heritage, research and interpretation, access and learning, and resilience.